The 2022 Franco Strazzabosco Young Investigator Award for Research in Engineering was awarded to Professor Stellato at the Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Annual Event held at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC. Professor Stellato received the award for his “research in computational…
Irina Wang has been named Winner of the 2022 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize. Irina, an ORFE Ph.D. student, advised by Assistant Professor Bartolomeo Stellato, accepted her prize at this year’s INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis where she presented her paper “Mean Robust Optimization”.
ORFE graduate students Rajita Chandak, Will Underwood, and Maxine Yu received the SEAS Award for Excellence. This honorific award recognizes advanced graduate students who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers.
Rajita, currently advised by Professor Matias Cattaneo, works on establishing…
ORFE Professor Kulkarni, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering was honored this summer when his portrait was unveiled at Procter Hall in recognition of his tenure as the Dean of the Graduate School from 2014 - 2017.
During his term in the Graduate School, Prof. Kulkarni instituted many new…
The Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS), which rotates between universities and research institutions across the country, was held last June 30th and July 1st at Princeton University. Over the past 20 years, the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department has hosted CAARMS 7…
Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi gave a plenary talk at the Colombian Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Medellin. This event is held every two years and focuses on applications of mathematics to other areas of science and to engineering problems in the public and private sectors. Professor Ahmadi's talk, titled "Learning Dynamical…
This year ORFE celebrates twelve graduate students who successfully defended their Ph.D's. Details on their impressive first job placements, advisors and thesis titles can be found on the ORFE Graduate page.
From left to right. Yaqi Duan, Laura Leal, Zhuoran Yang…
ORFE Professor Boris Hanin organized the first in-person Princeton Machine Learning Summer School, which was held from June 13th through June 17th. The school, supported by an NSF CAREER grant and funding from ORFE, CSML, PACM and SEAS, hosted approximately 60 student participants for an…
The inaugural workshop of the Princeton-First Republic Bank Research & Lifelong Learning Initiative was held June 6-10 on the Princeton campus. This was part of a $7.5m grant over 5 years which funds 3 research projects, postdocs and graduate students each year, as well as 3 workshops at Princeton. It is spearheaded by ORFE Professors…
On Monday, May 23rd The Great ORFE Class of 2022 celebrated Class Day. Twelve students were awarded prizes from eight prize categories. A list of winners and their thesis titles, along with video of select thesis presentations, can be found on the Undergraduate Awards page…
Congratulations to the Great ORFE Class of 2022! Seen here: their celebratory jump in the fountain after senior thesis turn-in day alongside their formal Sherrerd Hall photo taken during senior thesis presentations.
Rajiv Sambharya (pictured here with Acting Dean of the Graduate School, Cole Crittenden) was honored by the Graduate School for excellence in teaching as an Assistant-in-Instruction (AI) for Optimization: Decision-Making in the Age of…
ORFE Professor Boris Hanin has received the Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) for his significant research advances in deep learning, his commitment to teaching and mentoring students and his dedicated service to SEAS.
ORFE Professor Bob Vanderbei's celestial photos take center stage in the new book "Welcome to the Universe in 3D" . This book, co-authored with Princeton University Professors J. Richard Gott and Michael A. Strauss along with Hayden Planetarium head Neil deGrasse Tyson offers…
ORFE Professor Matias Cattaneo has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) for ``seminal contributions to nonparametric, semiparametric and high-dimensional estimation and inference theory and methods, with notable applications to causal inference and program evaluation; for statistical software…
Yuling Yan has received the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship from the Princeton University Graduate School for the 2022-23 academic year. This honorific fellowship which recognizes outstanding performance and professional promise, was established in 1912 in memory of Charlotte Elizabeth Procter.
Yuling, advised by ORFE Professor…
Former ORFE graduate student Zachary Hervieux-Moore *21 received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science for his work last Spring in ORFE 401, Electronic Commerce. Zachary, who was advised by Professor Alain Kornhauser, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Modern Reinforcement…
ORFE Associate Professor Ramon van Handel and Assistant Professor Boris Hanin received Great Teaching Awards for their Fall 2021 classes.
Professor van Handel received his award for ORFE 550, Topics in Probability: Probability in High Dimension. Professor Hanin received his award for ORFE 543, Deep Learning Theory.
Professor Ludovic Tangpi is a recipient of the inaugural MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship (MSEC). This fellowship is a joint commitment of the Mathematically Gifted & Black (MGB), a site which highlights the contributions and lives of Black mathematicians, and the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This…
The annual Princeton Smart Driving Car Summit organized by ORFE Professor Alain Kornhauser and held at Princeton University was the catalyst for the City of Trenton's new project Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicle Equity System (MOVES) whose goal is to “deploy 100 autonomous vehicles throughout the city to provide low cost,…